WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:07.680 my first look at the nzxth1 was as part of a fully integrated gaming system but 00:00:05.279 --> 00:00:11.679 it's actually available standalone or well sort of 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:16.480 nzxt sponsored this video where we're going to be showing you guys how 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:19.119 to build your own system inside the nzx th1 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:24.720 or at least part of your own system unlike most 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:30.240 cases on the market the h1 comes with some of the parts some of the especially 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:35.600 trickier parts pre-installed so it's basically kind of like those um 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:39.040 you know those like uh food delivered to your door things it's like yeah here's 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:43.719 all the ingredients all you gotta do is kind of slap them together 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:58.360 oh look at that we've got a disc plate on the door now it's not centered 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:06.479 the idea of creating small form factor compact sort of bare bones machines has 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:11.520 been around forever in fact i still remember the 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:17.119 look on my face when i discovered that so much of ncix's web infrastructure was 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:22.159 running off of a whole bunch of socket 478 and socket a 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:27.840 shuttle bare bones machines like this is back probably 15 years ago 00:01:24.880 --> 00:01:31.680 and even the idea of making a gaming machine that is sort of partly 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:37.759 pre-assembled where the user just adds you know let's say CPU RAM and storage 00:01:35.119 --> 00:01:42.079 is nothing new but what's different here is that nzxt has actually taken out 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:47.119 some of the things that would traditionally be included in a bare 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:51.520 bones so all you're getting here is the case 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:56.000 where is it there it is the power supply 00:01:53.360 --> 00:02:00.960 an all-in-one cooler so that's a 140 millimeter aio cooler that's going to 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:03.360 handle your CPU and the pci express 00:02:00.960 --> 00:02:07.680 riser cables that can be one of the most finicky parts of building a small form 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:10.879 factor machine the cool thing about this approach is that it takes some of the 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:15.680 things that are good about a pre-build like not having to worry too much about 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:20.319 what things work with what other things and some of the good things about a diy 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:24.319 pc which is you can use any brand of motherboard you want any graphics card 00:02:22.239 --> 00:02:27.840 you want and you get the satisfaction of putting it together yourself 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:32.239 so behind that plate we've got the modular interface for our graphics card 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:36.400 and you can see that our power cables are also pre-routed and 00:02:34.640 --> 00:02:39.440 this is a nice little touch shortened so that you don't have any 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:43.200 excess wires that you're going to need to tuck away so our graphics card is 00:02:41.519 --> 00:02:47.120 going to go in right around here and these are going to plug in right here 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:51.200 that's it one thing i confess i had a bit of trouble with last time i looked 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:56.879 at this was getting this panel off but this one just slides off super easily 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:02.879 so i don't know what the deal was there but that's good so that exposes the 00:03:00.239 --> 00:03:07.040 actually now that i know how to do it easy to access and easy to clean 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:10.560 magnetic fan filters there we go a little tab under there 00:03:08.959 --> 00:03:14.239 where you can pull these off super nice so these handle all the 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:18.640 intake for the system for the all-in-one cooler which is over 00:03:16.640 --> 00:03:23.040 on this side the power supply fan which is also on this side and then of course 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:29.440 yep that's my graphics card right there no no no so it'll look 00:03:27.440 --> 00:03:33.280 more like that so these are going to be pulling air in directly from outside of 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:37.440 the computer i always like these kinds of clever little things so the GPU 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:40.879 placeholder to make sure that nothing's you know rattling around in here 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:47.680 is also the accessory box there's an extension that's routed down 00:03:45.200 --> 00:03:50.159 to ah here it is on the bottom so we'll plug in 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:53.840 right there and then we've also got some zip ties 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:58.239 and cable management stuff how interesting so it's only a single three 00:03:56.239 --> 00:04:02.080 and a half mil jack on the top but it appears to be a combo jack so 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:08.799 it's a 4-pole jack and they include a splitter so you can split it out to microphone and headphones 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:14.560 also in here is all the mounting hardware that we're going to need for our CPU cooler whether we swing for the 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:18.160 Intel or AMD team we've got a back plate that covers us and then here's the hold 00:04:16.320 --> 00:04:22.240 down hardware and i have no idea what this one's for 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:26.720 we'll figure that out feels like i'm back in the 90s i'm going 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:31.120 on a road trip i like it start tearing this puppy apart 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:36.479 i think the pump may be built into the radiator rather than the CPU block for a 00:04:33.840 --> 00:04:40.240 second i'm super confused right now i'm like 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:44.240 crazy confused this doesn't say anything about that there's an all-in-one liquid 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:47.520 cooler already installed remove screws pointed at by arrows 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:53.759 wow that's cool 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:57.440 i am super into that really does look like there's a pump in there or 00:04:54.960 --> 00:05:01.919 something oh yeah this is super compact this doesn't have a pump in it wow how 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:04.960 about that that's cool okay well let's just tuck that aside for 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:08.479 now and then we can take out the dummy motherboard 00:05:06.960 --> 00:05:14.400 and put in our real one so i've got an rog strix z390i gaming we 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:18.639 could go with something lower end but because we wanted the 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:24.560 type c connector as well as overclocking capabilities for our 9900k 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:26.240 this seemed like a pretty good bet i o 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:29.360 goes down so you're actually going to plug everything in from the bottom of 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:34.160 the case and oh i should probably put a CPU on it 00:05:31.520 --> 00:05:38.479 now to install the aforementioned 9900k this is going to be the scariest part 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:42.560 for new builders but it really is this simple you pull the ARM away and up 00:05:41.039 --> 00:05:47.680 okay so that gets this clear so you're not going to accidentally touch the pins you just lift that up there 00:05:45.520 --> 00:05:50.560 line up the little golden triangle with the dot or the triangle that's on the 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:55.360 socket all right there's also these little notches here it's pretty hard to put it 00:05:54.320 --> 00:06:01.199 in wrong if you're paying attention to what you're doing give it a little wiggle make sure it's actually in there 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:04.400 lower this down make sure these are going to slide over that screw or under 00:06:03.280 --> 00:06:09.360 it rather and then ARM goes out and under 00:06:07.039 --> 00:06:13.840 and your CPU is installed RAM is even simpler we've gone with some vengeance 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:15.199 RGB RAM from Corsair go ahead and pop in 00:06:13.840 --> 00:06:21.840 one making sure that the notches are aligned evenly apply pressure from both sides 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.840 and we'll do that one more time 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:26.960 it's crazy to think about it but we're almost done with the motherboard at this 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:30.240 point it's that simple we could put our boot drive on the back of the 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:33.680 motherboard here but in this case i actually wouldn't really recommend it 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:37.919 the nand flash doesn't care about hot components nearby but the controller 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:41.280 doesn't really like it and our GPU the back plate of it is going to be right 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:44.560 against the back of the board so instead we're going to go ahead and take this 00:06:42.479 --> 00:06:49.199 shield off the front and we'll install the SSD there 00:06:46.479 --> 00:06:52.479 pop it in like a sodium hold it down 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:56.400 and screw it in boop don't forget to pull the protective 00:06:54.319 --> 00:07:00.000 cover off of the thermal interface material on your heatsink here it's not 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:04.400 going to make a huge difference like it's not going to affect performance or anything but 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:07.680 i mean if you've got it there you might as well at least 00:07:05.919 --> 00:07:10.080 have it as like a heat spreader or like a heat 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:15.280 soak and that really and truly is it let's go ahead and pop the motherboard in check 00:07:13.919 --> 00:07:19.919 this out so i'm just going to hold these front panel connectors out of the way and 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:22.319 we're going to slide the board in from the side 00:07:25.039 --> 00:07:30.880 that's nice too with the i o shield which is integrated into this 00:07:28.400 --> 00:07:33.919 motherboard it just sits there where it's supposed to go it's actually held 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:37.599 in place by gravity so now all we got to do is put our 00:07:35.440 --> 00:07:41.120 four motherboard screws in wow this is all the screws we need for assembly 00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:44.639 that's pretty cool we find motherboard screws in this 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:48.319 little baggie and four of those 00:07:46.479 --> 00:07:51.599 the corner braces of the case are in the way a little bit here but it's not the 00:07:50.400 --> 00:07:58.520 end of the world as long as you've got a magnetic tip screwdriver it should be all right 00:07:54.960 --> 00:07:58.520 probably won't properly 00:07:59.440 --> 00:08:04.639 now we're just going to plug in all our motherboard stuff so there's that pci 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:07.840 express riser i really like the way they've designed this so you got your 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:12.000 protective cover get rid of that and then it's got this nice little like 00:08:09.520 --> 00:08:15.360 plastic bracket that makes sure that it doesn't curve too much and accidentally 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:20.639 kink and also keeps it out of the way of the panels when you're trying to close them the 8-pin CPU power connector is 00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:25.360 pre-wire managed so we just go ahead and pop that in and the 24 pin is done up in 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:29.360 pretty much exactly the same way now my RAM 00:08:26.479 --> 00:08:33.120 is a little bit high profile but from looking at it here 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:37.120 it seems like we should still be able to get in there without 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:40.880 peeling the heat spreader off it there we go and it's back in place 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:45.360 and that just goes in or something like that front panel connectors can all be 00:08:42.719 --> 00:08:48.399 done now so here's our usb type c hd audio is also down here in the corner 00:08:47.040 --> 00:08:53.279 this one's a little bit long but maybe we could cable manage that a touch when we're done this is like the fastest 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:56.800 build ever i like how it stands up like this that means we've still got easy 00:08:55.360 --> 00:09:01.839 access to the back of our motherboard to put on our back plate just in case we forgot to do that earlier 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:05.600 well i mean you know that is why they started doing motherboard cutouts right 00:09:03.680 --> 00:09:08.880 so you could easily and quickly swap a cooler not so in case you forgot but 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:14.240 anyway i should put the actual hardware on here first oh yes preparation 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:18.560 yes oh interesting this is a system i have 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:23.600 not seen before so it's got like this little keyed thing and then you put it 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:26.160 in there and then i guess you 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:30.320 screw that in looks like the back plate does not go on very easily with these 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:32.800 pegs already attached i will take two of them off 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:39.120 hey there it is now we're just going to slip these little spacers 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:42.240 over all four of the posts this is really clever so it's like this 00:09:40.959 --> 00:09:46.240 by default which means you're not going to be able to get at the screw hole but 00:09:44.640 --> 00:09:49.200 if you pop them in they've got nice little instructions on here hey make 00:09:47.680 --> 00:09:53.600 sure you put those back before you close the system otherwise this tube is going to press up against 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:58.320 here and it might kink all right let's pop this on now for each post we need one more 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:02.800 little plastic washer and then one of these thumb nuts 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:07.680 not much left now along the edge here we've got the RPM wire for our 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:10.959 all-in-one cooler pump as well as our CPU fan so that's the fan that's 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:15.360 connected to the aio and we're pretty much ready to close 00:10:13.040 --> 00:10:19.600 that up wow okay tubes towards the outside 00:10:16.880 --> 00:10:24.320 okay that was that was a close one uh i would recommend using low profile 00:10:22.079 --> 00:10:29.200 memory we did manage to get these in with just a little bit of flex there see 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:32.320 that that's probably still fine but uh if i were you i would i would use 00:10:30.640 --> 00:10:34.880 something else that's it for cable management on that 00:10:33.920 --> 00:10:40.079 side all the usb and front panel connectors and everything can just sit 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:44.160 right here graphics card wait 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:47.440 how did i not install this bracket oh good that's for AMD 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:54.720 now for the moment you've all been waiting for rtx 2070 super time 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:59.760 so these two little tabs will hold the bottom of a card and i really need it to 00:10:57.040 --> 00:11:03.600 just actually like go the in there probably because my motherboard tray is 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:07.440 bowed then we just give it a firm little press and then we can put these thumb 00:11:05.920 --> 00:11:12.399 screws back on the bottom of the card that's it like i want to hear from the novices in the comments does this 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:15.760 actually look easier does this still look like kind of overwhelming and 00:11:14.640 --> 00:11:20.880 complicated maybe i'm just out of touch wow look at 00:11:17.920 --> 00:11:25.120 that it's only 26 steps for our extra PCIe cables up here in that empty two 00:11:22.959 --> 00:11:30.720 and a half inch drive bay and then you can just cover it all up buy ugly cables 00:11:28.640 --> 00:11:35.489 that's it panel time 00:11:35.760 --> 00:11:38.079 nice 00:11:39.760 --> 00:11:45.920 i'm not making the mistake of removing this sticker again 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:49.279 i'm just going to leave it there this is one thing that's a bit of a 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:53.839 bummer about this case the fact that you gotta dig around in its 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:58.880 underbelly in order to plug anything in i mean it does have a type c and a usb 00:11:56.079 --> 00:12:02.800 type a on the top but um it is an improvement for me now that i 00:12:00.800 --> 00:12:05.360 know that that's a 4-pole audio jack and you can just split it out to a 00:12:04.079 --> 00:12:10.399 microphone and headphone if you really want let's see if i managed to build a 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:12.079 computer that works 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:16.399 because that's the real trick it can be as easy as it wants until the moment you 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:20.160 press the button and it doesn't work like that uh balls 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:29.360 that's fine you don't close the side panels on a rig 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:34.800 until you've seen it post plug that in there now i just need to see a 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:38.240 logo on the screen go ahead and cut 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:45.680 let's try a simple receipt of our pci express connector okay fine i will reset 00:12:42.880 --> 00:12:45.680 the graphics card 00:12:45.920 --> 00:12:52.399 wait a second wouldn't that be funny 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:56.880 we spend all this time diagnosing a dead computer and it turns out it's a bad 00:12:54.240 --> 00:13:01.740 cable i love that that's my favorite fire this back up 00:13:02.160 --> 00:13:07.839 well okay then i even talked about how it's best to try 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:11.360 to troubleshoot the simplest things first do i not have uplay on here i 00:13:09.839 --> 00:13:15.920 thought this is my bench drive well shadow of the tomb raider it is then 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:19.360 man i love this when you get a fast CPU and it makes your games download faster 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:24.160 the thing is you're not just downloading raw data a lot of the time you're unpacking it at the same time so 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:28.079 especially having a CPU that can turbo up really high and that handles single 00:13:25.920 --> 00:13:31.760 threaded tasks really well can result in faster game downloads it's great i 00:13:29.920 --> 00:13:37.040 really gotta actually play this game so that i have like some other save games to load 00:13:35.920 --> 00:13:42.959 because i'm just like right at the beginning in this like stupid forced walking around segment i cannot get 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:45.680 motivated to play this one all the way through oh you know what let's just run 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:50.880 the benchmark yeah lots of hours in the benchmark 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:53.839 lots of hours pimping lttstore.com you know 00:13:51.920 --> 00:13:57.199 got my priorities straight all high seems like the sweet spot for a config 00:13:55.440 --> 00:14:01.199 like this it's a very sightseeing type game so i don't worry too much about 00:13:58.880 --> 00:14:05.600 getting 100 plus frames per second but even your lowest dips are still in 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:09.920 the low 50s and we've got g-sync on this panel so those get masked a fair bit as 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:13.680 long as you're not going down too low in a massive surprise to no one the 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:17.199 thermals of our system here behave pretty much the same as the ones in the 00:14:15.680 --> 00:14:22.160 pre-built they sent over to us because we we never hit higher than about 45-50 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:25.760 degrees on the CPU i would expect that to stay pretty consistent 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:30.079 ended up putting together a pretty similar system so 00:14:28.079 --> 00:14:34.000 the whole paradigm where it's intaking through the filtered sides and then 00:14:32.079 --> 00:14:38.320 exhausting just through positive pressure out the back works 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:42.480 really well so you've got like a hands warmer back here 00:14:40.560 --> 00:14:48.000 but here you can really feel the inrush of air over the power supply 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:50.079 the CPU cooler and the GPU 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:54.639 now that i'm done i can safely say not everyone is going to prefer the nzxt h1 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:59.120 approach with some of the parts pre-configured but if you wanted to 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:04.720 dip your toes in the water of custom building a machine i would say this is a 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:06.320 much safer way to go than 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:10.480 oh that case that we covered from singularity a little while ago the 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:14.560 easiest water cooled system that ended up actually being extraordinarily 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:18.880 difficult to build i think with some instruction following even a complete 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:23.120 novice builder could finish a system in this in a couple of hours and that is 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:26.720 really impressive if you're looking for a video to watch maybe actually check 00:15:24.880 --> 00:15:33.199 out that easiest water cooled one we had a lot of fun doing that build even if it 00:15:28.959 --> 00:15:33.199 wasn't as easy or fast as we had hoped